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Angel Gabriel. Oh the love we have for this mustang. From his worried and nervous eye when he was being ridden at the Kill Pen to today when he rules the world. He has put on a good amount of weight and today he and his best buddy, Leonidas, get to leave the barn and get out to a pasture. On to green grass with the blue skies above and cool water to drink. Stretch his legs and run, explore and discover his new surroundings and touch noses with other horses. The fear these horses experience when taken from their homes and friends, run through auctions to unfamiliar trailers, people, noises, and being asked to do things they don’t understand. But they try so hard.

And now we know Gabe and his incredible personality and kindness and the way he trots after you when you bring him grain. How he doesn’t mind when Leonidas pushes him off his hay. How he loves to be groomed and bathed. My heart wants to explode with love when I see his face sticking over the arena wall looking for me in the morning. That cheeky look in his eye saying “Breakfast?" Breakfast now?” Gabe, you are such a good boy and you’re home forever and ever. #skydoggabriel

Helping Mustangs & Burros

In addition to supporting our work by donating, becoming a patron on Patreon or sponsoring a Skydog, there are several important pieces of legislation to protect American equines currently moving through Congress. It only takes a few minutes to contact your Rep and Senators and urge them to support these bills:

Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act of 2023 (H.R. 3475 in the House / S.2307 in the Senate). This bill will shut down the slaughter pipeline that sends some 20,000 American horses and donkeys to savagely monstrous deaths in foreign slaughterhouses every year.

The Wild Horse & Burro Protection Act of 2023 (H. R. 3656) This bill will prohibit the use of helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft in the management of wild mustangs and burros on public lands, and require a report on humane alternatives to current management practices.

Ejiao Act of 2023 (H.R. 6021). To ​​ban the sale or transportation of ejiao, a gelatin made from boiling donkey skins, or products containing ejiao in interstate or foreign commerce, which brutally kills millions of donkeys primarily for beauty products and Chinese medicine.

You can Contact Members of Congress by calling the Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121‬, submitting contact forms on their individual websites, or sending one email to all three simultaneously at www.democracy.io

See our How to Help menu for other actions to ban zebra hunting at US canned hunt ranches, stop production of Premarin & other PMU drugs, and defund the Adoption Incentive Program.